Nalin Kulatilaka is Wing Tat Lee Family Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at Boston University Questrom School of Business where he also serves as the co-director of the Susilo for Ethics in the Global Economy. Nalin’s current research interests include social impact investing and financing distributed energy.

He has published over 75 papers in top academic journals as well as influential managerial publications. His book, Real Options (HBS Press), has received wide acclaim. He has co-founded several companies including FirstFuel Software (energy data analytics), and Certain Solar (aka Nine Dot Energy, community distributed generation for congested urban grids). He also serves on the Board of Directors of Assette. Nalin holds a PhD from MIT.